17.11.17

Meet Raulito, the Mexican Baby Who 'Performs Miracles' 84 Years After His Death (Video)

In
what will come across as a really shocking development, a Mexican baby
is said to be performing miracles some 84 years after his death.

In the pantheon of San Francisco, the oldest in Acapulco, lies the tomb of Raul “Raulito” González, who was born on April 2, 1932, and died on February 2, 1933, at the age of 10 months.

The tomb is the cleanest in the pantheon, the most visited, and it
is always full of flowers, candles, and toys. These are all offerings
for Raulito, who many believe performs miracles from beyond the grave.

Raulito’s tomb lay forgotten for many decades, slowly
deteriorating, until June of 2007, when a woman from Sierra de Atoyac
arrived at the cemetery with her young, dying daughter in her arms.
Susana Curiel García, the administrator of the cemetery, recalls that
the woman asked about a child’s grave that had been completely abandoned
by his relatives and that had neither fresh flowers nor candles.

García pointed towards Raulito’s tomb, where the woman then spent
an hour and a half praying for her daughter, who doctors had said would
not live to the end of the day.

After finishing her prayers, the woman left with the promise that
if her daughter survived, she would return to give thanks to Raulito.
Nearly two months later, the lady returned with the little girl who had
fully recovered. She brought Raulito flowers, a bag of toys and sweets
to thank him for the miracle. Her story quickly spread through Acapulco,
and soon visitors in need of miracles started flocking to the grave.

A second miraculous story tied to the grave of Raulito made the
news a few years ago, when a worker of the municipal Public Security
Secretariat lost control of his vehicle when the brakes failed.

He called to Raulito for help, and miraculously gained control of
the vehicle at that exact moment. The transit agent visited Raulito’s
tomb soon after and repaired all the damage done by the elements since
the 1930s. He also brought gifts to thank the spirit of the baby for
saving his life.

“Every toy that you see here, one or two toys are from each person that comes to ask for miracles” Susana
Curiel García told the EFE News Agency, pointing to the plethora of
toys covering the tomb of Raulito. She went on to say that, every day,
between 10 and 15 people, sometimes upwards of 20, come from the
villages of the southern state of Guerrero to visit the now-famous
miracle-performing tomb. On April 2nd, Raulito’s birthday, and November
1, All Saints Day, the number of visitors reaches 100.

Many believe in the power of Raulito, and some actually clain that the long-since-dead baby has answered their prayers.

“I have already asked the baby for many things, and everything I have asked for has been granted, and I keep asking,”
80-year-old Francisca Jaime Camacho told EFE. However, she points out
that people should not ask for too many things at once, or Raulito
“could get angry”. She also advises people to bring him toys instead of
candles.

Raulito’s final resting place is
constantly covered in toys, and cemetery staff have to remove them to
make room for more. All the toys are then donated to orphans and needy
children, as everyone agrees that the miracle-performing baby would
rather other kids enjoy them.